The U.S. government has prepared a draft budget for 2021 and military aids have been allocated to combat terrorism and fight against IS. The military assistance will be provided to Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria under the title of training and equipping them.
The U.S. government has set aside a total of $900 million to fight IS in fiscal 2021 which shows a 30% decrease compared to last year, according to Al-Monitor.
Washington has allocated $200 million to train and equip the Syrian Kurdish forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), indicating a decline in military aid to Syrian Kurds.
Based on the 2021 U.S. draft budget, $645 million has been allocated to the Iraqi forces under the title of training and equipping them in the fight against IS, but a small portion of the budget, $47 million, has been allocated to the peshmerga forces.
The United States has withdrawn half of its troops from Syria and deployed nearly 500 to protect Syria's oil wells that are under Kurds control in northeast Syria.
US President Donald Trump has set aside $740 billion for the Ministry of Defense in 2021.
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